WIT Homeroom Module: Introduction to HTML

WIT Homeroom Module:
Introduction to HTML

Developed by Sheila McGrath, John Lyman, Russ Revzan

Yes, we've all seen dozens, if not hundreds of pages and sites that explain HTML, hypertext markup language. Well, this one is different. It will help even the most web-shy computer novice and give him/her the information necessary to be a true web designer, none of this WYSIWYG stuff here.

Let's begin with a few explanations. The information you see on web pages is ALL contained within tags. Tags are the way we speak directly to the computer to tell it what to do. More often than not, you must open a command and close a command with a tag. Tags are all contained within this type of parentheses < >. Here's the tag we use to open and close all web pages:

<html>

The closing tag is preceded by a slash, /. Here is the closing tag for an html page:

</html>

Now you can make your first page using html! Click on "Creating a Web Page" to begin.

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